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In Alleghany County the Freedmen "are busily engaged trying to earn an honest living" and have no difficulties with the citizens although there are no troops there, and this fact is properly accounted for by the few freedmen, the demand for their labor, and the absence of large plantation habits and interests among the Whites who are generally small farms

Through the rest of this Sub District "a large percentage of the freedmen are contracting for the next years labor, but money is so scarce that the employers make their own contracts which are quite liberal to the freedmen."  "I know of no paupers or vagrants in this Sub District".  "During the past Christmas they have behaved so nobly that they have won praises from their bitterest enemies"  Every effort to organize a Board of Agents has failed, and Lt Tubbs thus has to adjudicate all cases, and he says "there are but few crimes committed by the Freedmen."

In Augusta County there is no material change  There was very nearly a riot in Staunton on Christmas day through the free use of liquors, and the fact was unmistakeably evidenced that the Freedmen need protection from bad men who were 

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